Lawgist10Deductions for damage or loss
1[(1) A deduction under clause (c) or clause (o) of sub-section (2) of section 7 shall not exceed the amount of the damage or loss caused to the employer by the neglect or default of the employed person.
(1A) A deduction shall not be made under clause (c) or clause (m) or clause (n) or clause (o) of subsection (2) of section 7 until the employed person has been given an opportunity of showing cause against the deduction, or otherwise than in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed for the making of such deductions.]
(2) All such deductions and all realisations thereof shall be recorded in a register to be kept by the person responsible for the payment of wages under section 3 in such form as may be prescribed.
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1. Subs. by Act 53 of 1964, s. 7, for sub-section (1) (w.e.f. 1-2-1965).
- 1 Short title, extent, commencement and application
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Responsibility for payment of wages
- 4 Fixation of wage-periods
- 5 Time of payment of wages
- 6 Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or crediting in bank account
- 7 Deductions which may be made from wages
- 8 Fines
- 9 Deductions for absence from duty
- 10 Deductions for damage or loss
- 11 Deductions for services rendered
- 12 Deductions for recovery of advances
- 12A Deductions for recovery of loans
- 13 Deductions for payments to co-operative societies and insurance schemes
- 13A Maintenance of registers and records
- 14 Inspectors
- 14A Facilities to be afforded to Inspectors
- 15 Claims arising out of deductions from wages or delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims
- 16 Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group
- 17 Appeal
- 17A Conditional attachment of property of employer or other person responsible for payment of wages
- 18 Powers of authorities appointed under section 15
- 19 [Omitted]
- 20 Penalty for offences under the Act
- 21 Procedure in trial of offences
- 22 Bar of Suits
- 22A Protection of action taken in good faith
- 23 Contracting out
- 24 Delegation of powers
- 25 Display by notice of abstracts of the Act
- 25A Payment of undisbursed wages in cases of death of employed person
- 26 Rule-making power
